Writing by Leila Summa on Saturday, 17 of May , 2008 at 4:08 pm
.. and do we know what we don’t know?
More: http://www.research.ibm.com/journal/sj/404/prusak.html
Category: Enterprise 2.0, Employee 2.0
Writing by Leila Summa on Saturday, 17 of May , 2008 at 4:05 pm
Extracts from a white paper by Mary Jo Hatch and Majken Schultz:
4_bringing_the_corp_into.pdf
“Differentiation requires positioning, not only products, but the whole corporation.”
“In either case, corporate branding brings to marketing the ability to use the vision and culture of the company explicitly as part of its unique selling proposition as part of its unique organisational value proposition.”
“The corporate brand contributes not only to customer-based images of the organisation, but to the images formed and
held by all its stakeholders, including:
• Employees;
• Customers;
• Investors;
• Suppliers;
• Partners;
• Regulators;
• Special interests; and
• Local communities.
The importance of employees to corporate branding and the need to better understand
their behaviour and thus the organisational culture of the corporation have received
particular emphasis in recent work. It is argued that employees are key to building relationships with all the company’s stakeholders as well as contributing to the meaning of the brand (i.e. by expressing to others who we think we are as a company). ”
“For example, de Chernatony (1999) stated that brand building involves reducing the gap between brand identity and brand reputation, whereas the ACID Test by Balmer and Soenen (1999) and further elaborated by Balmer (2001a, b) focused on
the interfaces between five types of identity:
(1) actual;
(2) communicated;
(3) conceived;
(4) ideal; and
(5) desired.”
Category: Controlling
Writing by Leila Summa on Saturday, 17 of May , 2008 at 3:14 pm
“Botanicalls: The Plants Have Your Number
Botanicalls opens a new channel of communication between plants and humans, in an effort to promote successful inter-species understanding.
Botanicalls allows plants to place phone calls for human help. When a plant on the Botanicalls network needs water, it can call a person and ask for exactly what it needs. When people phone the plants, the plants orient callers to their botanical characteristics.”
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Category: Social Media
Writing by Leila Summa on Saturday, 17 of May , 2008 at 9:17 am
1. Gardening Consultant
2. Green Living Consultant
3. Home Office Design Consultant
4. Organization/ Efficiency Consultant
5. Color Consultant
6. Generation Y Marketing Consultant
7. Second Career Consultant
8. Business Transition Consultant
9. Image/Style Consultant
10. Home Security Consultant
Quelle: http://consulting.about.com/
Category: Consulting
Writing by Leila Summa on Saturday, 10 of May , 2008 at 1:26 pm
” Das NLP-Modell der logischen Ebenen beschreibt die “Ebenen der Veränderung”. Es liefert Informationen über den besten Punkt, an dem eine Veränderungsarbeit ansetzen kann. Die logischen Ebenen dienen der Klärung, wo z.B. ein Problem, ein Ziel oder die eigene Mission angesiedelt ist. Die Veränderungsarbeit setzt dann i.d.R. auf der nächst höheren Ebene an.
Die logischen Ebenen sind hierarchisch gegliederte Ebenen des Seins, die sich wechselseitig beeinflussen: Umwelt, Verhalten, Fähigkeiten, Werte / Glaube / Filter, Identität, Zugehörigkeit und Spiritualität.
Etwas liegt auf einer höheren logischen Ebene, wenn es das darunter liegende umfasst und steuert; so sind z.B. Glaubenssätze auf einer höheren Ebene angesiedelt als Fähigkeiten, denn man ist insbesondere dann zu etwas fähig, wenn man glaubt, dazu fähig zu sein. Durch das Wechseln von der Problemebene auf die nächst höhere Metaebene werden Veränderungen erleichtert. Auf der Metaebene werden Ressourcen aktiviert, die die Veränderung in den darunter liegenden Ebenen erleichtern.”
Quelle: NLPEDIA
“Ein Problem kann man nicht mit der Art des Denkens lösen, die es geschaffen hat.” Albert Einstein
Category: Organisational Behavior